Overview of Kaizen

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Overview of Kaizen
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What is Kaizen?
Kaizen means Continuous Improvement. It
originated from the Japanese word 'Kai' meaning
'change' and 'Zen' meaning 'for the better'.
Kaizen is basically small improvements carried
out by the person who is doing the job in his/her
day-to-day work. Small zero investment
improvements are always welcome and are more
important than one-shot big improvements.
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What are Rules of Kaizen?

• Discard conventional rigid thinking about
  production.
• Think of how to do it, not why it cannot be done.
  
• Do not make excuses. Start by questioning current
  practices.
• Do not seek perfection. Do it right away if for
  only 50 of target.
• Correct mistakes at once.

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Key Steps for Quick Kaizen

• Sketch the problem and add any comments in order
  to clarify the precise issue. 
• List any potential causes for the problem. 
• For every cause, identify a test or check to
  ascertain whether this is the issue and decide
  how to perform the checks. 
• Assign each check to a team member and ask them
  to record whether each is a cause.
• Agree a list of actions to solve all identified
  causes. 
• Assess the risks of all potential solutions.
• When all actions are complete, monitor problem
  is solved.

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Parameter of Kaizen

• A Kaizen event will likely fail without excellent
  preparation. Once the problem has been
  identified, preparation should consist of the
  following things
• Complete a VSM
• Develop a Problem Statement with background
  information
• Determine the objective of the event
• Determine process times
• Identify team members and train them on Lean and
  Kaizen
• Prepare a box of supplies
• Schedule a meeting room, snacks, and lunches for
  each day
• Hold a meeting with all stakeholders to gain
  support
• Identify and arrange resources such as
  maintenance or other support
• Create a broad agenda for the event

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Elements of Kaizen
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Continues Improvements of Kaizen System
Plan - Develop a sound, well thought out goal
(that can be achieved with moderate effort) and
how to achieve it. Do - Implement the ideas
and/or changes needed to achieve the goal,
including training. Check - Review what you've
done be critical, but not negative. Act -
Depending on how the Check step went, sustain
these results or perform the whole PDCA cycle
over again.
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Advantages of Kaizen

• It is process centered. It is thus able to
  identify exactly where things are going wrong and
  change the processes so that mistakes do not
  occur. Wasteful processes are reduced, and this
  in turn reduced waste of resources.
• All people who participate in it get certain
  responsibilities, thereby giving them more
  purposefulness. Further, since it puts people on
  the forefront, employee morale increases
  tremendously.
• There is reduced need for inspection since there
  is less scope for error.
• Teamwork increases tremendously as a result of
  it and people are able to think beyond the needs
  of their specific department.
• Customer requirements are placed at the
  forefront of company efforts and all products and
  services are geared to the needs of clients.
• The long term and short term goals of the
  company are identified easily and there are
  systems to ensure that these goals are achieved.

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Disadvantages of Kaizen

• Some companies need to bring about an immense
  change in their mind set and style of
  functioning. This is sometimes very difficult and
  the initial problems created can be very bad for
  business overall. For instance, companies need to
  have a very open style of communication in order
  to put this management style into practice. Also,
  many employees think very territorially and are
  unwilling to let go 'their' work areas.
• Very often, the initial excitement around using
  a new management style dies down all too soon. As
  a result, companies are not able to get the
  results they are looking for. Further, it makes
  people believe that this management technique
  will not work at all.

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3 Principles of Kaizen

• There are 3 principles that need to be
  implemented so that the Kaizen methodology works
  properly.
• Consider all processes with their results
• Analytical thinking of all the process instead
  of the immediate problems only.
• Approach Kaizen with a reasonable and learning
  method so that assumptions which were part of the
  current processes can be re-examined.

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Key Futures of Kaizen

• Widely applicable.
• Highly effective and result oriented.
• A learning experience.
• Team based and cross-functional
• You can get more information about
• Kaizen Training Presentation Kit and view Domo
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